30 Consequential Minutes on Seminary Ridge
By Phil Spaugy The 1st Corps had been driven from East McPherson’s Ridge. After an hour of some of the most intense combat of the Civil War, its battered 1st
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Gettysburg Memory
The death of Col. Harry Burgwyn at the head of his 26th North Carolina Infantry during the first day’s fight at Gettysburg is deeply embedded in battlefield lore. Less remembered
Cadet to Boy Colonel: The life and service of North Carolina’s Henry King Burgwyn, Jr.
By Dave Batalo and Rusty Hicks Rough-hewn rail fences dominate the countryside around Gettysburg, dividing it into neat plots of field and wood. One of these borders, located downslope beyond
Final Harvest: The Last Journey of a Confederate Lieutenant Wounded and Captured at Pickett’s Charge
By Charles T. Joyce Fields thick with golden wheat and oats blanketed the southeastern Pennsylvania countryside surrounding the hamlet of Fayetteville during the early summer of 1863. On June 28,